which way the country's going to be easy so that barak it's nearly a week since he gyptian general's promise to lift a fifty year state of emergency but there's still no sign of when that will be the army if it once can keep the state of emergency in place for as long as it says it's necessary but not everyone thinks its intentions are noble my mood is a photographer who couldn't wait to capture egypt's revolution on film but he was stopped at the border by gyptian soldiers. so just how different is egypt today under the generals from the egypt of yesterday under mubarak finian cunningham is a middle east expert in bahrain from way visual and internet communications have been cut by the authorities on the urgency of the. central component of the government will not care about finger like the present. war or. generals and for as long as

a state of emergency remains in place the hopes that brought millions of egyptians to the streets remain up in the air but egypt's not the only country the middle east that lives in a state of emergency across its border here in israel this country too has its emergency doors for the last six decades since the birth of the state of israel we've been in a formal state of emergency which in israel has set into power and number of laws that were strict civil liberties and civil rights in ways that we find problematic whatever it is there's no denying that a country in a state of emergency is a country with marcus easier mode and if in egypt the generals don't make clear signs to move towards democracy soon and many protesters might be wondering what exactly they were out in the streets for policy r.t. television. or coming up in just a couple of moments here in r.t. it's a religious affair in rome present dimitri medvedev is the vatican and we have all the details on his meeting with the pope and how it could change the early. between

the countries churches. plus russia's wealthiest woman finds herself in the middle of a multi-million dollar left scandal and you can get all the details on that story a little later here on r.t. . but first u.s. congressman and pentagon officials are debating how best to trim the country's a fourteen trillion dollar national debt president barack obama has already proposed cutting the massive defense budget by seventy eight billion dollars over the next five years the pentagon is making sure however the cuts don't come with the expense of america's ability to wage war all non-essential programs are being slashed the proposed budget would actually see pentagon expenditure grow this year was all it sees christine prisoner reports ordinary americans are paying the price of living in a war mongering country. times are tough for many on main street but most in government agree before assisting people like this it's more important to assist people like this. perhaps this is one reason the us military budget is more than

fifty percent of the entire world and once again the top brass came to washington to defend defense it is my judgment that the department of defense needs an appropriation of at least five hundred forty billion dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the u.s. military to properly carry out its mission maintain readiness and prepare for the future defense secretary robert gates also discussed cuts he's made to the military budget on programs no longer needed what you may not know is that most of the seventy eight billion dollars he's cut would take place in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen when there will be a new secretary of defense and possibly a new president. and this was his announcement last month that i'll describe how these reform efforts are followed through to completion will make it possible to protect the u.s. military size reach and fighting strength despite a declining rate of growth and eventual flattening of the. budget over the next

five years as far as that flattening budget here's a look at current spending compared to previous war efforts and even after the cuts experts say in twenty fifteen the military budget will still be about one hundred billion dollars larger than in the bush years and about fifty billion more than the reagan years so what's going on here hunnam is richard wolfe says it's simple all the beneficiaries of government spending the companies that get subsidies the military producers who sell goods to the government the working people who get some benefits even if they're small all of them have mobilized to hold on to what they get to make it politically costly for any congress man or woman to go against them here's congressman buck mckeon chairman of the house armed services committee who has fought cuts to have and there will be winners and losers in this process tough choices must be made but i will not support initiatives that will leave our

military less capable and less ready to fight. in addition to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the health and safety of men and women serving and there are also other expenses more than eight hundred military bases in places like the marshall islands and a seven million dollars sponsorship by the army of nascar. usually pleas for money to come closer to the name world of life or death drastic reductions in the size and strength of the us military make milla armed conflict all the more likely with an unacceptably high cost in american blood and treasure but the real treasure in our minds with those with the real power according to trends research institute director gerald celente it's a simple as they had writing on the wall it's called the military industrial complex is in charge of the nation and until that changes there will be an invisible cloak around the pentagon that will allow no one to touch its budget.

what you will see are the things that are sacrificed the basic services the roads go on repair and people who are forced to live on the streets and a continuing decline in the health education and overall quality of life for most americans in washington christine for. the from the center for american progress told us washington's approach to different spending last the defense budget is it's actually higher now than it was at the peak level of spending during the cold war we're spending more on defense and they are spending during the war in vietnam as well and defense spending in the country is actually doubled since two thousand and one so really i think we need to do a better job of matching our resources and our priorities i think since two thousand and one in this country we've sort of gotten into the mindset of buy everything do you have anything in a sense we've decided that if we can spend enough money we can sort of in

a way address every threat that's out there we can buy perfect security and that's just not realistic actually secretary gates was testifying on the hill yesterday in front of the house armed services committee and he was asked about this very idea you know how much money do we really need to spend for all these security needs and he said listen you know there's no money money that you can spend they can actually take our risk down to zero it's just it's an illusory concept so we need to do a better job as i said of matching our resources and our priorities and at this moment time with the difficult economic situation in the us we really just can't afford to increase the pentagon budget year after year as we have been doing over the last decade. kosovo is marking the third anniversary of its declaration of independence from serbia that the republic continues to suffer from huge economic and political chaos and the crisis has been further deepened by a recent critical report submitted by the council of europe it accuses some of course of his leading politicians including the current prime minister hesham

touchy of being involved in horrendous crimes during the one nine hundred ninety nine war of secession among allegations or executions abductions and all been trafficking on wednesday serbia called on the un security council to investigate the charges. from the british seven alliance for peace says the claims weren't investigated by the us in the e.u. earlier because they would have to admit blame for their role. those crimes that were committed a great service at that time was so huge that to admit that in fact the reality was that the albanians that the u.s. was sponsoring at the time they couldn't go back from their original claims without admitting that they'd be lying all along particularly in one thousand nine hundred nine and that would have meant that those who bombed serbia were culpable in criminal terms for that bombing and should answer before an international courts so of course it would be very difficult for them to say actually yes we are indeed wrong we were wrong we supported the wrong side and that and that was the one step too far for them there seems to be nobody charged with the task of actually

investigating these findings so it will require a brave brave security council and a committee a security council one that wants the truth to actually appear and i have my doubts whether that will appear out of the security council. pope benedict says he wants to learn russian or that's what he told me treatment but at the russian president he's currently on an official visit to the vatican it's every year since moscow and the holy see restored ties for decades of disagreement. has more in this. this is the first visit over russian president putin vatican city after russian vatican establish diplomatic relations back in two thousand and nine president dmitry medvedev and both been addict the sixteenth touched upon a number of global issues as well as cooperation between russia and its believe within various international organizations but they also talked about the cross concessional dialogue between the russian orthodox and the roman catholic church as members of the russian delegation has been saying that their way should have been

the churches have been improving recently and that right now a possibility of a meeting of the leader of the washington orthodox church they try to reel and had all the roman catholic church who benedict the sixteenth is now much more possible than it was several years ago so in that respect this visit has been very symbolic also during president latest visit to rome a number of energy deals have been signed russia and it's a we have agreed to jointly invest in two major infrastructure and energy projects in north africa also it was decided that russia is going to be involved in developing the elephant oil fields in libya together with its sleeves and career it's really is russia's second largest trade partner in the european union after germany and according to preliminary estimates. trade volumes have increased speed through the two countries by nearly twelve percent since two thousand and nine we

still have this hour naughty space fashion courtesy of a renowned former agent made headlines around the world. on the chopper one is on a mission to get the russian space industry to look fabulous all the clothes make details earlier later in the program. police have raided the offices of russia's richest woman and there is the wife of moscow's form a man who was sacked by prison dmitri medvedev last year or did you go to school explains what's behind this raid. officials are saying that these searchers are part of an investigation looking into the embezzle mint thirteen billion rubles which is over four hundred forty million u.s. dollars from the bank of moscow which is russia's fifth largest bank and they see that you know the wife of moscow's former. are directly connected to the skates which actually started in december investigators believe that the investment was

conducted through a loan deal between the bank of moscow and several if you go up in companies and they say that the money simply ended up on personal bank account not what's also interesting is that investigators say that this transaction happened on the same day as government allocated around fifteen billion rubles to the bank of moscow for other purposes and there's already speculation that this state money may have been used by to cover up the debts for a company in teko for recent years both the union and you to scoff moscow's former mayor have been subject to controversy although neither of them have been found guilty of any illegal activities there's a lot of speculation that you know who is the russia's richest woman and the only female billion in the country she was able to gain this fortune with the help of

her husband's resources as the mayor of moscow her company and talk also always got the most attractive deals in the city when it comes to its development and what's also interesting is that since stopped being the mayor of moscow into also stopped getting all these good deals. and her lawyer so deny all the accusations saying that the investigators have absolutely no grounds for such claims he says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved. in any criminal activities and said that these. are pressure on her and her husband meanwhile. ready to call up everybody including. questioning if it is. time now to update you on some other news making international headlines this hour a series of blasts rocked

a military base in tanzania killing at least twenty people it happened near the airport in the country's largest city. explosions and started in one before spreading to others in the camp four thousand people have fled the area and have gathered at the country's national sports stadium a similar accident another times in. facility in two thousand and nine killed three people. this being the second violence in southeastern turkey after rights marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader the testers held stones and petrol bombs at riot police in the city. who responded with tear gas and water cannon several people arrested the protesters accused forces of being too heavy handed during demonstrations earlier this week a dollar or two and continued imprisonment. among twelve people killed when a boat sank in north eastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most were asleep in their cabins it's believed there were twenty foreigners on board and

those who survived nine people and six crew members jumped into the water where they were rescued by other vessels as the deadliest accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. to belgium now and it's now gone two hundred forty nine days without a government which some are saying equals the world record held by iraq a month stalemate is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million speaking flemish and the four hundred million french speakers hundreds of people from both sides organize a flash mob in the french speaking students calling for the creation of a unity government that was one of many being held across the country. they were known for russian agent on a chapman without a dash of glamour to the country space program the redhead now wants to try designing new uniforms for the space industry. has this report. the club riches are taking center stage and businesses seem so donna chapman is just trying to cash

in on status well to begin with she registered your name as a trademark so know your name as a brand and the latest of your creative ideas will be reflected in a collection of quote sport most people spaceman on the ground at a space controls and also the country's largest training center will be trussed up in what we believe might be very glamorous and outfits it's not specified though in what capacity issue will be participating as a designer or she will take pause in the projects financially would not have told the last year for the first time in her life on the chapman visited the baikonur space cosmodrome in kazakhstan where. a rocket launched into orbit and perhaps it was there where. inspiration looked around at those brave men and decided that their next mission will be to make them look small they feel this. july last year when she was deported from the united states of america it seems that the song spy

service has become the least kept secret in russia she was offered a job on television she's now hosting a t.v. program where she's supposedly uncovering the world's secrets she was also appointed an advisor to the foreign service bank which shares the nie shows with the country's a top secret service the office and just recently she joined a movement so yes it seems that these days shoes here and there and everywhere. katrina travel reporting they're now moving to sweden where there is increasing pressure for the country to join nato with many european countries already members of the expert says only a matter of time before. i met up with a local peace activist who claims all these attempts are america's way of trying to gain control of more countries and is next to.

i don't know don't know where burke is on a mission to tell the world how far and how much needle has gone taking over the globe and details aren't she why the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the u.s. nato war machine in the south korea and japan where you can go through they are so proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden

cooperation their sort of don't speak about the connection between afghanistan the troops we have in afghanistan and nato it's sort of kept aside so people in this country they are not in favor of their soldiers in afghanistan and it was not at all brought up in the campaign for the election last autumn. so i can't on that i can see it sort of silence the whole thing it was very obvious when that was. it was. suicide bombers the top ten got the no news paper connected this with the fact that swedish troops are in afghanistan we don't know for sure worth the kind of connections were but they did the newspapers didn't connect the don't talk about the thought that the problem it was it is not

discussed and why does the swedish media ignore these kinds of things why are people talking about this not until i show the man and show the global reach of nato and the how what they are doing up in the north like us was born being a training bomb training in book then the it said this is all you are telling the truth because it's not told what if we rush goes to canada and train bombing shouldn't it be a little bit. unfeeling if we didn't it would have warped i mean i would be very very scared if they started bomb being close to another country came over from the other side of the ocean and started training bomb being a course the americans should have the right to be to be to be unsecure is what's going on here what are they planning for people who have endured such

a horrifying war like russia you shouldn't treat them that way west is treating russia today by in circling strangling pointing at you we're from the submarine from one month outside more months you have tried in submarine surrounding the whole a ratio what is that but the international community says they understand russia's caution about nato do you think they really do it's about surrounding erase shia. and in the end strangle maybe not bomb but strangle and threaten so you get your guest you get the siberia scats you can put up your your oil pumps and like they tried during jensen i mean it was almost there they they really wanted to

to to come into the core of the russian foreign ministry and then grew but then put in cape. and then what what was they telling what was the calling putting all hitler ho ho ho he says what he said stop enough is enough why does the country's political elite want to help or to most likely be in the alliance what are they doing to get them on the hook what are they do what are they promising them or i really i don't have the answer because for me it is insane this policy it's true it's pure insanity ho many things can united states government show that they don't care if about peoples when they show they torture in for instance all these terrible torture place in. guantanamo in every place they are

violating international law they are violating all treaties all treaties and they come away with it do you think that sweden hides behind partnership for peace to cooperate with nato oh it's we all knew some of us knew for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just the end to chambre for nato but partnership for peace was the most i haven't heard that the totals told me when i was in new york a couple of years ago the pentagon said had said partnership for peace is considered the most brilliant idea the pentagon ever had come forward with it was so successful because you could look at what the partnership for peace has turned into we need almost olympus and almost all countries that former partnership or peace they already made to and why is partnership for peace so brilliant because you get a lines right into the foreign policy to start to discuss you get the possibility

to just start to talk with with the people who are who are responsible for four of . for important policy that is partnership for peace and they fooled a lot of peace organizations are you crazy are you really crazy you're going with nato on no mater it's appears organization so they were talented those who brought this up they were but the worst thing and the thing that made us just be wanting to poke wall joining european union and then after this it was just partnership or peace i mean it was it was the it was the case i mean joining european union richard holbrooke who came here in ninety four and said hello to to us you know richard holbrooke when he is around they where now he's dead but there are certain are there others coming but richard holbrooke and he said why

don't you can take on the baltic states so sweden did look at what we're doing now we're almost one of the best guys in the club in the eight we do more than the other countries that are in nato and that was sweden is now it's a shame it's a shame i've found i'm ashamed of my country it's joining in nato secretly pulling people. that would thank you very much for sitting down with us.

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